9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which Hungarian leader stepped down from parliament after his party suffered a landslide defeat?
💡 Viktor Orban
According to reports, the US Pentagon raised the prospect of reviewing its position on the sovereignty of which British overseas territory?
💡 Falkland Islands
Which AI company is investigating claims of unauthorised access to its Mythos tool, which it considers too dangerous to release publicly due to its hacking capabilities?
💡 Anthropic
Mixed bag
In which city would you find the Colosseum, the ancient amphitheatre once used for gladiatorial contests?
💡 Rome
Which Norse explorer is generally credited with being the first European to set foot in North America, landing at a place he called Vinland around 1000 AD — nearly five centuries before Columbus?
💡 Leif Erikson
Which 20th-century Hungarian mathematician, famous for his prolific output and eccentric lifestyle, posed the conjecture that any set of integers containing no three terms in arithmetic progression must have density zero — a problem that drove decades of work in combinatorics?
💡 Paul Erdős
On this date (27 April)
On 27 April 1994, which country held its first fully democratic general election, ending decades of apartheid rule?
💡 South Africa
On 27 April 1978, a coup in Afghanistan brought which communist party to power, in an event known as the Saur Revolution?
💡 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
On 27 April 1749, the first public performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks took place in which London park?